• cmnybo
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    4 hours ago

    Unless the drive gets corrupted or infected with malware, you can just load a previous snapshot. That’s much faster and easier than reinstalling.

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      1 hour ago

      Snapshot as in a VM?

      Most people run their OS on physical hardware.

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        1 hour ago

        Btrfs has snapshots. They can be created instantly and don’t use any extra space until the files are changed.

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          39 minutes ago

          Ah, yeah, I have read about that, I do feel a bir hesitant to use BTRFS so I didn’t think about that.

          The Linux machines I have worked with all ran ext3/4 or xfs.

          To be completely fair, I never gave BTRFS a proper chance, at first because it felt too new and unstable when I heard about it, and later I heard that it was developed by Facebook and let my distaste for that company color my perceptions of btrfs.

          But I just checked the wikipedia article and saw that plenty of reputable oranizations have worked on btrfs, so I guess I’ll get it a go when I build a NAS…

          Thanks for reminding me of it, I may get set in my ways from time to time but I do genuinely try to learn and change my way of thinking.